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The California Chamber of Commerce and other establishment business groups are actively opposing Prop. 90, which would ban the abuse of eminent domain for economic development and require governments to pay compensation when they use downzoning and other regulations to take property. So the Chamber has sided with the big-government and leftist groups that believe that it's OK if average citizens must give up their homes and businesses to aid big developers, many of which are no doubt Chamber members. Here we see the reemergence of the long-simmering split between conservatives and the business establishment. Whenever the business guys face...

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking a duck so far on the preschool initiative on the June 6 ballot, several of his consultants and allies are not. Richard Riordan, the governor's former secretary of education, and his wife, Nancy Daly Riordan, are among Proposition 82's leading supporters. Some of the big donors to the governor's campaigns - Robert and Elizabeth Lowe and Warren Hellman - are also lending their names to the campaign to tax high earners to pay for universal preschool. On the other side, the campaign against Proposition 82 is relying on advice from some consultants who have...